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  • Buffalo shooter targeted Black neighborhood, officials say

    CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMO|May 15, 2022

    BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The 18-year-old gunman who authorities say killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had previously threatened a shooting at his high school and was sent for mental health treatment. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Payton Gendron had appeared on the radar of police last year after he threatened to carry out a shooting around the time of graduation. Officials also say the gunman had researched the local demographics and arrived in the area a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance with the "express...

  • Police: Buffalo gunman aimed to keep killing if he got away

    CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMO|May 15, 2022

    BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep on killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as the possibility of federal hate crime or domestic terror charges loomed. The gunman, who had crossed the state to target people at the Tops Friendly Market, had talked about shooting up another store as well, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told CNN. "He was going to get in his car and continue to drive down J...